World Intellectual Property Day 2025: How Protecting Jyotish Can Unlock a $1 Trillion Opportunity and Shape India’s Global Knowledge Leadership

On World Intellectual Property Day each year, we honour the knowledge systems, creativity, and innovation forming human development. It’s time India too looks inward as countries protect their technological breakthroughs and artistic works to preserve one of its greatest intellectual assets: Jyotish, or Vedic astrology.
Cultivated over millennia as part of the larger Indian Knowledge System (IKS), Jyotish is a sophisticated, evidence-rooted science rather than just a forecasting technique. It reflects the intellectual legacy of Bharat a knowledge tradition that not only formed our past but also offers powerful answers for the mental, environmental, social, and economic issues of the present and the future.
Jyotish, on the other hand, runs the risk of being marginalized, misinterpreted, or even commercially abused by foreign organisations without organized legal protection, innovation-driven research, and worldwide positioning.
Preserving Jyotish today is not just about preservation; it is also about opening India’s next front of intellectual leadership. Vedic astrology and related knowledge systems can drive a $1 trillion contribution to India’s economy over the next decade, via research, wellness applications, education, mental health frameworks, sustainable planning, and global cultural exports, provided the correct policy support and innovation ecosystem.
Jyotish: A Pillar of India’s Intellectual and Spiritual Legacy
Deeply rooted in the Vedas and enhanced by centuries of academic polishing, Jyotish presents a whole picture of life including astronomy, mathematics, philosophy, psychology, and spirituality.
Designed not only to forecast events but also to balance human existence with cosmic rhythms, it provides ageless insights on mental well-being, sustainable living, leadership, relationship dynamics, financial planning, and more.
Jyotish is a bridge in a society more fractured by stress, environmental concerns, and existential ambiguity between science and spirituality, between fate and human choice.
India can place Jyotish as a globally respected knowledge system not a superstition but a sophisticated, multidisciplinary science contributing to personal development, organizational strategies, mental health therapies, and planetary well-being by investing in innovation, evidence-backed research, and strong legal protection.
Why Protect Jyotish Now?
Astrology’s worldwide appeal, which frequently draws much from Indian ideas, has skyrocketed in recent years. India runs the danger of losing control over one of its most important intellectual and spiritual gifts to human civilization, though, without a structured system to record, verify, and protect Jyotish methods and writings. Expanding the Traditional Knowledge Digital Library (TKDL) to incorporate Jyotish is absolutely vital to solve this discrepancy. Documenting classical texts such as Brihat Parashara Hora Shastra, Jataka Parijata, and Phaladeepika in a consistent, codified manner for future generations would validate them. Much like TKDL’s function in safeguarding Ayurvedic knowledge, it would also stop biopiracy and misleading claims, therefore guaranteeing that old astrological information is not wrongly patented by foreign organizations. Safeguarding Jyotish will preserve its cultural and Vedic purity, enhance India’s soft power by highlighting the richness of its native sciences, and set the groundwork for ethical, responsible worldwide use by means of established standards, certifications, and genuine educational frameworks.
Protecting Jyotish: A Strategic Investment in India’s Knowledge Economy
Valued at more than $5 trillion, the worldwide wellness sector is seeing unmatched expansion in the need for traditional knowledge-based remedies ranging from energy healing techniques to mindfulness practices. Jyotish (Vedic astrology) stands especially well positioned to provide not only predictive insights but also transforming applications spanning mental wellness, preventative healthcare, sustainable living, career guidance, and leadership development in the midst of this growing wave of holistic living. Deeply ingrained in Vedic knowledge, Jyotish provides an integrative, time-tested framework that can handle some of the most pressing modern issues stress, emotional imbalance, environmental mismatch, and decision-making uncertainty. Promoting, protecting, and creating Jyotish can therefore be fundamental to India’s developing cultural and economic soft power, therefore orienting it as a worldwide light of old yet very pertinent knowledge systems.
India has to legalize Jyotish under programs such as the Traditional Knowledge Digital Library (TKDL), thereby guaranteeing the system’s validity is maintained and acknowledged globally, therefore realizing its full potential. Beyond protection, there is a need to promote interdisciplinary study combining astrology, psychology, environmental sciences, behavioural economics, and management studies showing Jyotish’s deep significance to contemporary scientific and social frameworks. Creating a reliable ecosystem around Jyotish by means of organized certifications for genuine practice and training will help ethical practice and knowledge spread all over the world. These actions will help India to generate millions of new jobs in many different industries wellness and mental health services, education, research institutions, technological innovations (such as tailored life-planning apps based on Jyotish principles), and creative industries including content, storytelling, and cultural tourism.
Furthermore, by providing the world answers based on old knowledge but modified for contemporary needs, preserving and developing Jyotish will greatly increase India’s cultural exports and diplomatic power. Jyotish and allied Vedic sciences can help to unlock nearly $1 trillion in economic value for India over the next decade if tackled strategically with expenditures in research, education, certification, and foreign advocacy. This would not only enhance India’s internal economy but also confirm Bharat’s status as a Global Knowledge Leader for the 21st century steering the globe toward a future that combines scientific investigation, holistic living, and spiritual well-being.
Recommendations for the Government
The Government has to act proactively and imaginatively if it is to really use the transforming power of Jyotish and include it into India’s future development narrative. Establishing dedicated research centres, fellowships, and partnerships with respected universities around India and the world would help to encourage evidence-backed research in the subject of Jyotish first. Equally crucial is the requirement to launch multidisciplinary study initiatives combining Jyotish with disciplines including psychology, environmental science, behavioural economics, artificial intelligence, and data analytics thereby placing Vedic astrology not just as a separate practice but as a useful lens in several modern disciplines. Acknowledging the unavoidable technology-led upheaval, the Government should vigorously promote the digitization of genuine Jyotish knowledge, AI-driven tailored tools based on traditional systems, blockchain-based registries for authenticity, and smart certification platforms for practitioners. A specific Startup Innovation Fund run by ministries including AYUSH, Education, and Science & Technology would have to be established to financially assist young entrepreneurs, researchers, and technologists working on Jyotish-based applications, research models, and wellness solutions, thereby driving innovation. India can turn Jyotish into a vibrant, globally acknowledged knowledge ecosystem producing intellectual, cultural, and economic wealth for decades to come by fostering a supportive atmosphere for genuine modernization.
The Road Ahead
This World Intellectual Property Day, let us understand that safeguarding Jyotish is not just about maintaining tradition but also about guaranteeing India’s position in the future worldwide knowledge economy. The real road as we approach Vikshit Bharat @2047 is to combine Adhyatmic Intelligence with Artificial Intelligence, so guaranteeing that old knowledge and contemporary creativity together form a more aware, strong, and rich society.
This article is written by, Sidhharrth S Kumaar, Registered Pharmacist, Astro Numerologist, Life & Relationship Coach, Vaastu Expert, IKS Expert, I Ching Expert, Energy Healer, Music Therapist, and Founder, NumroVani..!!